Re: dot matrix printer unicode question
Hi,
Jude, relax and take your time to read and
It is recommended not to use top posting on Mailing list. (I reordered)
> On Sat, 1 Aug 2009, Osamu Aoki wrote:
>> You are very unclear what you mean by "real dos computer".
On Sat, Aug 01, 2009 at 02:04:20AM -0400, Jude DaShiell wrote:
> By real dos computer I mean a different machine with msdos 6.22 installed
> on it that was connected to the printer through its parallel port and the
> file was copied to a floppy disk and printed from that floppy disk on the
> other machine. The other machine hasn't enough resources to install
> windows or Linux, so it's a real dos machine. When I tried this on
> debian I tried: cat biglots.txt >/dev/lp0 and lpr biglots.txt and lp
> biglots.txt I didn't try piping the cat through lp or lpr. The 13 line
> file was a text file I made with ex if memory serves.
So far, I understand but you did not answer the rest of the mail.
>> Are you doing:
>>
>> debian $ cat somefile.txt |lpr
>>
>> dos> cat somefile.txt > PRT:
>>
>> or used some DOS full screen application to print via menu dialog.
>>
>> (I forgot DOS device name for parport.)
This is important.
>>> I have a printer queue set up which allows lpr and lp both to
>>> print garbage last time a sighted person took a look dollar signs
>>> question marks and very long lines of text were being printed.
>>
>> If you are using DOS full screen application to print via menu dialog,
>> text is processed to fit to printer protocol by your DOS application.
>>
>> If you did not configure lpr right, data is directly sent to printer.
>> UTF-8 character makes this situation worse because printer assumes asii
>> with some escape sequence as expected input.
>>
>> I recommend you to use CUPS which set up printer eaily. If you have
>> problem with some UTF-8 chracters, you need to convert text with a2ps
>> etc. to ps file.
>>
>>> This is a grocery list with one item per line.
>>
>> Please read following and CUPS documentation for more:
>>
>> http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-reference/ch06.en.html#_the_print_server_and_utility
>> http://www.cups.org/
Have you took time to read at least some of these?
Anyway, you really need to configure printer system.
There is no one line answer for it.
Osamu
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